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"Effing the ineffable"? I don't even know what that means

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Got an email today about a mental health article titled "We are happy conservatives here to brainwash you into doing bad things for your body." Oh, wait. It wasn't called that. It was called "Abortion causes massive mental health problems for women."

I can't speak to the quality of the research cited, which I'm going to look into later today, but I'm disturbed by the presentation and contextualization of the data, on a website that's admittedly a conservative hub. I get along with everyone—right-wingers, lefties, ambidextrous people—but this site is a little too strident for me, and I feel like it's representative of how the anti-abortion movement is being waged—cannily, and persuasively—so it's worth taking a look.

One of the advertisers on the website it the conservative T-shirt maker thoseshirts.com, who say they've been "effing the ineffable since 1991." Good for them! I think.

Pictured here: a new take on the radical Che Guavara shirt that those damn kids are always sporting. With the cutie boy shirts (isn't that desecration of the flag?), it's a fashion do. I only wish Ann Coulter were the model.

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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.